Gregory Poland Explained

Gregory A. Poland
Education:Illinois Wesleyan University (BA)
Westminster Theological Seminary (MA)
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine (MD)
Occupation:Physician, vaccinologist
Work Institutions:Mayo Clinic

Gregory A. Poland is an American physician and vaccinologist. He is the Mary Lowell Leary professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota,[1] as well as the director of the Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group.[2] He is also the editor-in-chief of the medical journal Vaccine.[3]

Education

Poland received his BA in biology from Illinois Wesleyan University in 1977 where he was a member of Sigma Pi fraternity.[4] [5] He received his MD from the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in 1981.[5] [6] Poland also received an MA in theology from Westminster Theological Seminary.[5]

Research and activism

Poland is known for researching the immunogenetics of responses to certain vaccines,[3] including smallpox vaccines.[7] He has also written about the negative impacts of the false claim that the MMR vaccine might cause autism,[8] and is an outspoken advocate of mandatory influenza vaccination.[2] After developing tinnitus after his COVID vaccination he has called for better safety studies. [9] [10]

Department of Defense

In 2007, Poland was named by President George W. Bush to be president of the Health Defense Board.[4] This board answers to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs.[11] Dr. Poland has also been president of the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board and worked for over ten years as a consultant to the department.[4]

Honors and awards

Poland received the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service in 2004 and was named a Master of the American College of Physicians in 2008.[1] [12]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Gregory Poland Biography. Drgregpoland.com. 30 October 2015. 7 September 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190907235900/http://www.drgregpoland.com/biography.html. dead.
  2. Web site: Death Threats, Hate Mail: Autism Debate Turns Ugly . ABC News . 31 October 2008 . 30 October 2015 . Childs, Dan.
  3. Web site: Gregory A. Poland . Elsevier . 30 October 2015.
  4. Web site: Poland selected to head Defense Health Board . 31 . The Emerald of Sigma Pi . 22 August 2016 . Dibble, Adam . 16 May 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210516143603/http://www.enivation.com/SigmaPi/archive/Emerald/2007/SP_EMERALD_VOL_92_NO_2_SPRING_2007.pdf . dead .
  5. Web site: Gregory Poland, MD, MATh, MACP, FIDSA, FRCP(London) . nanovaccine.iastate.edu . Iowa State University . 16 March 2024.
  6. Web site: Gregory Poland Bio . Mayo Clinic . 30 October 2015.
  7. Web site: The Most Dangerous Vaccine . CBS News . 11 December 2002 . 30 October 2015 . Rather, Dan.
  8. Poland. Gregory A.. Jacobson. Robert M.. The Age-Old Struggle against the Antivaccinationists. New England Journal of Medicine. 13 January 2011. 364. 2. 97–99. 10.1056/NEJMp1010594. 21226573.
  9. Web site: Poland . Gregory A. . 2024-08-14 . Better safety studies could restore America's confidence in vaccines . 2024-08-31 . STAT . en-US.
  10. Poland . Gregory A. . Kennedy . Richard B. . April 2022 . Vaccine safety in an era of novel vaccines: a proposed research agenda . Nature Reviews Immunology . en . 22 . 4 . 203–204 . 10.1038/s41577-022-00695-3 . 35197577 . 8864453 . 1474-1741.
  11. Web site: Defense Health Board - Federal Advisory Committee to the Secretary of Defense | Health.mil . 22 August 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160823004717/http://health.mil/About-MHS/Other-MHS-Organizations/Defense-Health-Board . 23 August 2016 . dead .
  12. Web site: Dr Gregory A. Poland . Terrapinn . 2016 . 16 March 2024.

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